Restaurateur Steven Fondu is scheduling a Mediterranean restaurant in Jupiter, with a kitchen helmed by French Laundry alum Kayla Casale.
Fondu’s namesake hospitality firm is opening Ara early up coming year, the South Florida Organization Journal reported. The 3,800-square-foot cafe at 1406 Cypress Generate will have seating for 125 people, a chef’s table and bar, the outlet reported. Anna Woodman Inside Style and design, a Jupiter-based hospitality design and style organization, is managing interiors for the cafe.
Property records present that Frank Seminara, a retired Significant League Baseball pro, purchased the cafe space for $1.9 million in August by his Franksters Gangsters LLC. Seminara, who had a second profession as a Morgan Stanley economic adviser just after pitching for the Padres and the Mets, bought a Palm Seaside Gardens house for $5.8 million previous calendar year, documents exhibit.
Ara will mark Fondu’s very first restaurant as an operator. Most not too long ago he was the assistant typical manager with Stage Kitchen & Bar in Palm Seaside Gardens, where he began as a bartender. Prior to that, he labored in revenue at Fox Tv Stations, LinkedIn demonstrates.
Casale has been working as a private chef in Miami, according to LinkedIn. She earlier worked at Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill, Restaurant Person Savoy, Eiffel Tower and Le Cirque in Las Vegas. She also labored for Thomas Keller’s French Laundry, the Napa restaurant exactly where California Governor Gavin Newsom infamously dined amid the height of pandemic limitations.
Keller himself is also moving into Palm Seaside County –– the culinary large signed a lease on Palm Beach’s Worthy of Avenue in June.
Brokers say the pandemic-fueled migration of Northeasterners and Californians to Palm Beach front County has brought a culinary transformation. New York preferred Le Bilboquet opened in Palm Beach in 2021, and private dining club the Carriage Dwelling opened very last year, according to released studies.
— Kate Hinsche
